The biggest PC eSports events in 2021

With the Counter Strike PGL Antwerp Major going into its champions stage soon, we at Vizzlo decided to shed some light onto what was going on in PC eSports in 2021.

During the pandemic, many people spent more time on gaming and the interest in eSports events grew even taller. Not only viewership records were broken for each game, the record for the highest prize pool of all time in eSport was also set again by The International 10. The huge gap in prize pool size between this event and all the others is established by the fact that the Dota 2 player base is able to influence the amount by purchases in the in-game store.

However, worldwide Covid-19 regulations made it hard for event companies to host these events with big crowds. The only event from this chart that had a live crowd was the PGL Major Stockholm 2021. Many countries are now allowing events with big crowds again, so it seems to be out of question that in the future the interest in eSports is going anywhere but up.